There were also various releases on the same type of platform, such as Motown Chartbusters, 150 Hits of Gold and boxed sets. After its success in the UK, Motown went on to release variants of the compilation format in other counties such as the United States and Australia. Minor hits were sometimes included in place of bigger hits, most notably for the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson. By 1964, Motown had accumulated enough British hits for EMI to release a greatest hits album, A Collection of Tamla Motown Big Hits.

Another difference was the number of tracks per album, the UK version consisted of 16 to 18 tracks, whereas the US version only had 12 tracks. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This consisted of only five albums which had completely different track listings to the UK releases. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The first nine albums were Top 15 UK Albums Chart entries, whereas the later albums from 10 to 12 did not chart.Early Motown Records releases in Britain were not on the Motown label, but were issued on the London, Fontana, Oriole and Stateside labels. The first release on the Tamla Motown label was " Stop In The Name Of Love" by the Supremes, in March 1965. Because of Motown's policy of re-issuing tracks on single on a regular basis, there are some anomalies in the inclusion of tracks.

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Although the series comprised mainly hit singles by various Motown artists, the albums also included other recordings that had not been hits in Britain and many significant single hits were excluded from the series. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.